beat vs pure

beat

verb
  • To hit; to strike. 

  • simple past tense of beat 

  • To rob. 

  • To indicate by beating or drumming. 

  • To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event. 

  • To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison. 

  • To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. 

  • To make a sound when struck. 

  • To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind. 

  • To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm. 

  • To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting. 

  • To tread, as a path. 

  • To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip. 

  • To make a succession of strokes on a drum. 

  • To move with pulsation or throbbing. 

  • To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. 

  • To have sexual intercourse. 

  • To arrive at a place before someone. 

  • To persuade the seller to reduce a price. 

  • To be in agitation or doubt. 

adj
  • Ugly. 

  • Having impressively attractive makeup. 

  • Boring. 

  • Exhausted. 

  • Relating to the Beat Generation. 

  • Dilapidated, beat up. 

noun
  • A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect. 

  • A beatnik. 

  • A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. 

  • The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard. 

  • The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.). 

  • A rhythm. 

  • The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians. 

  • A pulsation or throb. 

  • A makeup look; compare beat one's face. 

  • A stroke; a blow. 

  • The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music. 

  • The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. 

  • A smart tap on the adversary's blade. 

  • The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency 

  • A precinct. 

pure

verb
  • to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately 

adj
  • Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants. 

  • Free of foreign material or pollutants. 

  • Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. 

  • Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science. 

  • Mere; that and that only. 

  • Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant. 

  • A lot of. 

  • Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. 

adv
  • to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. 

noun
  • One who, or that which, is pure. 

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